Keeping Watch - Daily Updates on Spring Migration

By Steve Wilson | Feb 24, 2012

Henry County - 2/28/12 —

The swan sightings continue to amaze me. For years we have been releasing swans and watching them disappear over the horizon never to see most of them again. Now suddenly we seem to be on a swan flyway.

Today (2/28) on the Old Rome sand pit there were 3 Trumpeter swans, 40 Canandas, 25 Greater White-fronted geese and one Bald Eagle in the air.

2/24/2012 -Snow - Cloudy - 32 F.his morning there were 5 adult Trumpeter Swans on the 34 by-pass/Winfield Avenue borrow pit along with one pair of Scaulp. A Bald Eagle flew over the water while I was there.

At the Joy Lake 34 bypass borrow pit there were hundreds of Mallards and nice small flocks of Canvasbacks, Red Heads, Canada Geese, Scaulp, and White-fronted Geese, along with a pair of Ring-necked Ducks and a pair of Ruddy Ducks. 3 Hooded Mergansers showed up on the home pond.